Bendigo Mark Lodge No. 12

Meeting - First Tuesday of odd numbered months (excluding January)
7.30 pm at Bendigo Masonic Centre, McIvor Road, Bendigo
Installation - May meeting, 6.30 pm
Secretary - Allan Power (ph. 03 5443 9379)

In operative Masonry, the use of distinguishing mark to identify each craftsman's work is a long established practice serving two useful purposes - it established a craftsman's entitlement to wages and in the event of faulty work, enabled the foreman or overseer to identify the workman responsible.
The Degree of Mark Master Mason is centred on this practice and is particularly directed to the inculcation of order, regularity, diligence and discipline. Like the second or Fellowcraft Degree of the Craft, it is less concerned with the past and future and more with the here and now of our present life. It places emphasis on not judging people or situations on outward appearances but in seeking hidden truths.
A brother must be a Master Mason in Craft Masonry before he is eligible to become a Mark Master Mason.

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